28 THE FLORA OF HALIFAX. 



Lotus corniculatus, L. — 112. Bird's-foot Trefoil. 

 Native. British type. P. May-September. 



Skircoat Moor. — Herb. Leyland. 



Common in dry fields and Banks. 



Lotus uliginosus, Schk. — 100. (L. major, Sm.) 

 Native. British type. P. July-August. 



1831. Common about Luddenden.- Herb. S. King. 



Near Halifax, frequent. — Herb. Leyland. 



1888. Todmorden. — Lees Flora. 



Infrequent, in moist meadows : Ovenden, Norland, Lud- 

 denden Dean, Cragg Vale, Hebden Bridge. 



[Astragalus glycyphyllos, L.— 64. " Wild Liquorice." 

 Native. ? Extinct. Germanic type. P. June-July. 

 1775. In a field just above Mixenden Green ; in a field by 

 Clough-head in Warley.— J. Bolton. 



11 Can this have been wild there ; or is the flora of the 

 country undergoing a gradual change, of which this and 

 other observances of Bolton are a proof? " — F. A. Lees. 

 See the next, and compare Spiraa Filipendula.] 



Ornithopus perpusillus, L. — 83. Bird's Foot. 



Native. British-English type. A. May-July. 

 1775. In the back lane going from King Cross to Halifax ; 



in all the roads on Willow-edge, in Skircoat.—/. B. 

 1840. Near Halifax, very common. — Bailies' Flora. 



About Halifax. — R. Leyland ; Herb. S.K. 



No recent record, and never " very common." Here Bolton 

 is supported by later botanists, though it now seems as 

 impossible to find this species here as the preceding. 



Yicia hirsuta, Gray — 109. Common Tare. 

 Native. British type. A. May- August. 



1775. In hedges about Salterhebble and Bank-house in 



Skircoat ; about Shaw Hill near Halifax. — /. B. 

 1844. Luddenden Brook. — Herb. S. K. 



Hanging Royd Mill. — Herb. S. Gibson. 



Vicia gemella, Crantz — 74. (V. tetrasperma, Moench.) 



Casual. English type. A. June-July. 

 1844. Luddenden Brook.— Herb. S.K. 



Hanging Royd Mill. — Herb. Gibson. 



Infrequent, and only on waste ground near mills, where it 



seems only a casual : Sterne Mill and Wheatley. 



